The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.
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Elegant gold embroidery on red velvet - part of French officer’s uniform
Hand-embroidered, ca. 1800. The details are breathtaking. It’s also amazing that this and so many other uniforms survived.
I am ridiculously interested in the caduceus but I can’t find anything about why it would be on the uniform or what the other symbols stand for.
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Sometime between 2.15 a.m. and 2.25 a.m. on 15 April 1912.
The final wireless message sent from the Titanic:
R.M.S. Titanic to R.M.S. Carpathia:
“SOS SOS CQD CQD Titanic. We are sinking fast. Passengers are being put into boats. Titanic.”
